Posted on 01/26/2017 7:42:15 PM PST by Morgana
WASHINGTON — Bible-believing street evangelists warning against all sin, including abortion and homosexuality, were shouted down, spat on and had water thrown on them by participants of the Women's March on Washington on Saturday afternoon.
As hundreds of thousands of Americans descended to the nation's capital to stand for "women's rights" and protest President Donald Trump in the demonstration organized by pro-choice groups like Planned Parenthood, various groups of Christian believers also took the streets to warn the predominantly-liberal crowd about what the Bible has to say about sin.
Along Pennsylvania Avenue, a group of over 10 street preachers from various states branched off into two different huddles — each with a megaphone and signs warning that "hell awaits" those who sin and calling for people to repent.
Some did not take kindly to what the street preachers were saying.
Kerrigan Skelly, a street evangelist from Kentucky, told The Christian Post that he was spit on while speaking over the megaphone. Skelly and witnesses tell CP that the person who spat on him was a lesbian woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
RTFM:
Matt 6:5
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"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
NIV
The largest gathering of ex-wives on the planet.
These people aren’t hypocrites, they are activists for Christ. We are His hands and feet here on Earth. It’s up to us to get His message out.
I’d say a vast majority of these women have never heard the Truth of the Gospel. Well, they’ve heard it now, thanks to these brave Christians...and now they are accountable.
Don’t condemn them for doing what we’re all supposed to be doing.
Then some of these so called preachers give all Christians a bad name by name calling and condemning all they see. Of course at an event like this march that may be true.
Jesus told us not to throw our pearls before swine and that seems to me what you would be doing trying to reason with a pagan mob like the march.
One person in that crowd may have been touched. He or she may have heard the word and it may have been that 16th time to hear it and it got through. So good for them unless they were doing the whole Fred Phelps thing.
>>It’s up to us to get His message out
It’s up the Holy Spirit to get His message out.
It’s up to us to live in the body of Christ.
>>Well, they’ve heard it now,
Well, at least the sound waves might’ve made it into their ears. But that doesn’t ensure hearing - or listening.
>>and now they are accountable
For the specs in their eyes?
The Holy Spirit gets His message out through us.
Faith comes from hearing. They must hear the Word in order to be saved. What they do with it is up to them.
I wouldn’t call advocating for the slaughter of innocent human beings “a speck”.
Throwing water? Sounds like Vagina Hat 2.0 might have a super soaker built in.
>>The Holy Spirit gets His message out through us.
Just my opinion. But it seems a little presumptuous of “evangelists” to think the Word can only be delivered through their efforts - and that others are subsequently “accountable” after being “evangelized”.
Many of those operating in the body of anti-Christ can, and do, articulate the Gospel.
That’s probably not because they’ve never heard the Word (Logos) - but maybe because they’ve never seen a living example of a body inhabited by It - and so are misled to reject Him.
Who’s accountable for that?
They weren't praying - to be seen. They were preaching. Bringing the Word to the lost.
2Ti 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
I appreciate anyone trying to bring the Word to the lost - for Christ alone can Save. But I can also understand the use of discernment, and the argument, in this case, to not cast pearls before swines.
Nonetheless, it is worth trying to save anyone - and if they thought someone might hear (and the Holy Spirit open ears) more power to them.
>Just my opinion. But it seems a little presumptuous of “evangelists” to think the Word can only be delivered through their efforts - and that others are subsequently “accountable” after being “evangelized”.<
Can you see into their hearts? How do you know what they think?
I’m not Catholic, but support the Christian Appalachian Project, now a $100 million dollar Christian relief group there. It started off with one man, Ralph Beiting preaching on the street corners.
http://people.com/archive/appalachian-trailblazer-vol-54-no-24/
Excerpt:
When Beiting arrived in overwhelmingly Baptist eastern Kentucky 50 years ago, the majority there felt that way. “I was cussed at, shot at, had tomatoes thrown at me, and [was] arrested,” he remembers. Once he was confronted by a burly youth swinging a chain. “He said he was going to hit me in the head with it,” recalls Beiting. “I told him, ‘In the name of God, will you put that down?’ and to my great amazement, he did.”
The anti-Catholic hostility was open and intense. While street preaching in isolated Leslie County one day, Beiting needed an electrical outlet for an amplifier and asked a man sitting on his porch if he could tap into his. When the man refused, Beiting said, “If I requested a cup of water in the name of Jesus, would you give it to me?” When the man said yes, the priest said, “What I’m asking is the same—I’m asking for a plug full of electricity, in the name of Jesus.”
The man puzzled over this, then relented, declaring, “If you say one Catholic thing out there, I’ll pull out your plug.” After listening to Beiting preach, the man cried and offered lifelong access to his outlet.
thanks to these brave Christians...and now they are accountable.
“I’d say a vast majority of these women...”
click on the link...a lot were “men” and I use that word loosely.
Proclaiming the Gospel “in season and out”.
I disagree with your assertion. Paul was frequently excoriated, and worse, for offering the Gospel - all of the Gospel, including the condemnation of sin - to pagan mobs.
People, including pagans, are sick of the bait-and-switch party offerings of the Church. The same thing that draws them will have continue to keep them, and the entertainment culture of churches today is over-the-top and unbiblical, hurting the message of the Gospel to the point of perversion.
The left constantly minimizes throwing water on people as harmless, as “free speech,” while they throw a nuclear tantrum for much less against them.
I can remember the “glitter bombs” lobbed at Michelle Bachmann over the years. Assault is assault, and is still criminal.
I’m not advocating a watered down gospel or today’s feel good prosperity messages, I just don’t think most of the street preaching methods are effective. Most people participating in these marches and such aren’t going to let go of their mob mentality to listen to reason. I think you have a better chance to evangelize someone on a one to one basis. I just never met anyone who said that they accepted Christ because someone was yelling at them or calling them names.
Well, “yelling” can just be loud speaking to get the word out, and “name calling” is in the eyes of the beholder. For most leftist pagans, merely being referred to as a “sinner” is highly offensive to them.
But your point is taken. I’m just responding to the empty nicety-nice trash that’s out there in spades.
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